"Listening to the Color of the Land" with authors Mimi Robinson, Local Color: Observing Place Through Watercolor, and Christian McEwan, World Enough & Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down, Point Reyes Books, 11315 CA-1, Point Reyes Station, free, 7:00 (www.ptreyesbooks.com/events)

A reading by Northern California Book Award-winning poet Solmaz Sharif, Look, with a reception, in celebration of the new Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University and its inaugural director, Persis Karim, Humanities Symposium Room, HUM 587, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00-9:00 (http://poetry.sfsu.edu)

Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reads from her new book, Loaded, providing necessary context on the persistence of the national gun crisis, Center for Political Education, San Francisco, 522 Valencia Street, San Francisco, 4:00 (www.facebook.com/events/2037874726226932)

Benicia Literary Arts and the First Tuesday Poets present a reading of and about the Beat Poets, open mic follows, The Rellik Tavern, 726 First Street, Benicia, free, 4:00-6:00 (www.benicialiteraryarts.org)

Celebrating A Life Among Fishes: The Art of Gyotaku, by scientist and artist Christopher M. Dewees and Designing with Palms by landscape designer Jason Dewees, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=event&event_id=3116)

Two Lines Launch Party, Celebrating Women in Translation, the annual journal launch is dedicated to women in translation, the poetry reading features both poets and translators reading their own poetry, their translations, and the great work you'll find in Two Lines, readers include Norma Cole, Maxine Chernoff, Gillian Conoley, Ani Gjika, and Lizzie Davis, co-sponsored by The Poetry Society of America, Churchill's Office, 194 Church Street, upstairs, San Francisco, tickets $10, includes a copy of Two Lines and an open cocktail bar, tickets online or at door, 7:00 (415/754-0194, www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3334073)

A reading and conversation with David Henderson, poet, writer, and co-founder of the Black Arts Movement, The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (poetry.sfsu.edu)

Peter Wohlleben discusses his new book The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World, Dance Palace, 503 B Street, Point Reyes Station, $25, 1:00-3:00 (www.ptreyesbooks.com/events)

Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reads from her new book, Loaded, providing necessary context about the persistence of the national gun crisis, Humboldt State University, The Latinx Center for Academic Excellence, Arcata, 7:00 ( www2.humboldt.edu/aspresents/node/81)

David Koehn celebrates the release of Compendium: Donald Justice's Prosody Syllabus, which he co-edited with Alan Soldofsky; Robert Hass reads from his A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=event&event_id=3116)

Poetry reading by Randall Mann, Proprietary, and Fernando Pérez, A Song of Dismantling: Poems; also discussing the poetic experience as a path to cultural healing, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=event&event_id=3116)

Zachary Lazar reads from his new novel Vengeance, with special guests The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva), Peabody Award-winning independent producers who create stories for NPR and other public media, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=event&event_id=3116)

Bruce Holbert discusses his new novel Whiskey, in conversation with Suzanne Lang, a reporter for KQED and the host of "A Novel Idea" on KRCB radio, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=event&event_id=3116)